Deception

Episode 1

Pilot

Sun, Mar 11, 201843 mins

Celebrated Vegas and TV illusionist Cameron Black takes big risks, as with an imperfectly prepared Houdini escape act, but always triumphs. One morning, he's arrested for the murder of a woman after a nocturnal car crash. He can only prove his innocence by revealing the actual crash driver: his secret twin brother Jonathan, whose innocence he believes but can't prove, only that the victim was switched, so it's jail. Cameron is determined to liberate Jonathan by helping the FBI, so he vows to demonstrate his illusionist skills' merits. He gets his chance when Mexican drug cartel boss Felix Ruiz disappears after the explosion of an airplane, which Cameron proves to be staged like a TV special he once did. While the FBI stumbles, his team makes the difference to track down the plane and the fiend, who gets away, so he comes up with a sting featuring his impersonation of the cartel's banker Dominic Guard.